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...owns a Washington employment agency. There is much less today than there was 20 years ago, anyway, says Shirley Brussell, 77. She is executive director of Operation ABLE, a Chicago-based employment and training agency that specializes in helping job seekers age 50 and above and proves by its mere existence that older workers get more assistance now than they once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Unmasking Age Bias | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Kind of hard to find much conventional commercial promise in the movie either. Directed and co-written (with Kenny Moore) by Robert Towne, it stars Billy Crudup and Donald Sutherland, not exactly guys you can count on to open a picture. Worse, it follows by a mere two years another movie about its protagonist, the legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine, which flopped miserably. Without Limits, which is a very good movie, will require a stroke of marketing genius to succeed. Or an unusual effort at understanding--a willingness by the audience to set aside generic expectations and engage the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: At the Head of the Pack | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...estimable Glenn is having his dream fulfilled at taxpayer expense, a privilege denied the rest of us. The pursuit of happiness does not carry with it the requirement of government funding. Don't insult our intelligence by pretending Glenn's voyage into space is good science instead of a mere joyride. GARY ABBOTT Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...shock waves through the aviation industry. Both Swissair and the MD-11 have impeccable reputations; indeed, Swissair maintenance workers are in great demand and often help out at other airlines. They have not had a single crash in nearly 20 years. The downed plane was seven years old, a mere babe in industry terms. "This was a descendant of the DC-10," says TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin, "and a hell of a reliable stable airplane." Nevertheless, there was one incident last year at Newark Airport in which a Federal Express-owned MD-11 crashed on landing. That investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash That Shocked an Industry | 9/3/1998 | See Source »

...companies is happy to do it for you for setup fees ranging from $100 to $250. Do-it-yourselfers should visit Network Solutions, which administers domain-name registration in the U.S., at rs.internic.net Click on the words "Register a domain name" and fill out the form. The cost? A mere $70 for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's In A Name? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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